“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me”
― Walt Whitman
Mimosa Pudica
Category: plants
Along the St Johns
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman
Peruvian Primrose
“Human Subtlety… will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous” Leonardo da Vinci
Deer Tongue
Seaside Primrose Willow
Carolina Wild Petunia
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose…” – Walt Whitman – Song of the Open Road – thanks to Chris Highland – Meditations of Walt Whitman.
Gaillardia pulchella
“Forever is composed of nows”
― Emily Dickinson
My favorite wildflower – I’ve made it almost 3 weeks without posting one. |:>). This time of year, Black Point Drive (a wildlife drive in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge) is lined with them.
“The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.”
― Emily Dickinson
The Wetlands
“They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”
― Emily Dickinson
Monday
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson
Picture This by Frank 